Tang Zhangwei often took Wei Wan'er to wander around Yangzhou City, and on this day he was interested and walked to the county government of Jiangyang County.

What Tang Zhangwei didn't expect was that he saw a few officials whipping a scholar, and the remaining more than a dozen scholars, seeing their companions being beaten, couldn't help.

Tang Zhangwei stepped forward and scolded: "Why are you beating people? ”

The little official with the whip in his hand was not afraid, he said: "I beat these sours, some villains for the sake of small profits, spoiled grandpa Zhou Yan's wine, really deserve to be beaten." ”

Tang Zhangwei said: "Zhou Yan, if you have something to say, it's okay, why bother beating people?" ”

Zhou Yan said: "This sour son Tian Ke, who is studying, asked my grandfather to get five liters of rice, and my grandfather has never seen rice, where can I give it to them." I told the sours, and they were still entangled, so I had to fight. ”

Gong Siheng, a scholar who was beaten with a blue nose and swollen face, said: "We just want to get what we deserve, why do you beat people?" ”

Zhou Yan said: "I can't talk to you! "The officials are going to whip people again.

Tang Zhangwei sneered and said, "You guys have such a big list. ”

Zhou Yan said: "I see that you have an official tone, but you have to remember a sentence, it is called let his officials be as clear as water, how can the officials be as smooth as oil, without us little officials, you can't do anything as officials." ”

Those who read could only shake their heads and leave when they saw that Zhou Yan was very rampant this week.

Tang Zhangwei and Wei Wan'er stopped those scholars, only to know that they hadn't received any of their rice, and they were in a hurry to ask, so those little officials whipped them well. Without asking, those little officials procrastinated all day long, and there were still scholars who had not received a grain of rice for two months.

Tang Zhangwei asked them, "Is this all true?" ”

A scholar named Le Yuxiang said: "If it weren't for the poverty of the family, who would bend their waist for these five buckets of rice, not five liters of rice!" However, these little officials just keep humiliating us and don't take us seriously at all. ”

Tang Zhangwei opened a school to open up people's wisdom and encourage women to come out to work. At the same time, great efforts have been made to promote literacy work, so that Huainan Province will have a new look in a short period of time.

Tang Zhangwei returned to Yangzhou City, ordered soldiers and horses, arrested those few officials, and gave them a good whip.

After whipping these officials who humiliated the scholars, Tang Zhangwei promoted many soldiers and scholars into the ranks of the officials.

At the same time, Wei Zhuang publicly beheaded those officials and told them about their evil deeds in Quanhuai South Province, so that those petty officials could learn a lesson, so that these petty officials would not humiliate the people again.

The reason why this Lu Mi was detained is very simple, that is, Zhou Yan and the others felt that these scholars couldn't help them, so they detained their things.

Tang Zhangwei imitated the practice of the Western Zhou Dynasty and left a slanderous wood with a report box on it, which was specially used to let the scholars and the common people complain about the illegal behavior of the officials.

Since then, the officialdom atmosphere in Huainan has improved a lot.

Wei Zhuang felt strange, and he asked Tang Zhangwei: "Why did you set up a literacy class to instill scientific and cultural knowledge in the Tang Dynasty soldiers?" Isn't it better to drive the soldiers to be ignorant? ”

Tang Zhangwei said: "Only a literate army can give full play to its might. Look at the foolish policy adopted by Huang Chao, and as a result, his rule is not full of dangers? ”

In Huainan, it has settled down. Residents around Huainan Military Town have moved to Huainan Province.

The food in Huainan Province suddenly became tight, and Wei Zhuang advocated restricting immigration.

Tang Zhangwei objected, saying: "Huainan Province does not have enough food to eat, we can go to other places to buy it, or we can think of other ways, we should not always think about reducing the population." ”

Tang Zhangwei opened the salt ban, encouraged private salt boiling, and canceled the monopoly on salt in Huainan Province, so that all people in Huainan could eat salt.

Because the grain in Huainan was much cheaper than in other places, all the merchants from the surrounding feudal towns went to Huainan to buy salt.

As for the lack of grain, Tang Zhangwei introduced Champa rice that crops three times a year, and at the same time organized a fleet to go to the sea to get grain.

Under Tang Zhangwei's organization and encouragement, the people of Huainan built ships one after another and went to the sea to fish.

Tang Zhangwei also personally led the generals to the sea, and he often shot whales with a strong crossbow.

Many residents have also caught whales, as well as giant squid and giant octopus, among others.

A behemoth like a whale, one is equivalent to thousands of cows, and one can feed 100,000 people for a meal.

There was an old scholar in Yangzhou City, who said to people; "What the hell is a big whale that can feed 100,000 people?"

Tang Zhangwei told the old pedant: "This whale is about 50 zhang long and weighs 300,000 catties, so it is still underestimated to provide 100,000 yuan for a meal." ”

With the joint efforts of the people of Huainan and the government, the shadow of famine has always passed.

Although Tang Zhangwei moved out of the banner of Confucius, some old scholars were still dissatisfied with Tang Zhangwei.

What these old scholars are most dissatisfied with is Tang Zhangwei's move of letting women work on the streets, and men and women have equal rights.

Wei Zhuang also persuaded: "The general seems to be the emancipation of women,. Something too hasty? ”

Tang Zhangwei replied: "Since there are all female emperors, it is natural for women to do some work and get some compensation." There's no need to make a fuss about this. ”

Tang Zhangwei established the horse administration and encouraged the people to raise horses and cattle, and these livestock were the great property of the people of Huainan.

At the same time, Tang Zhangwei began to build a medical center, and the people of Datang hoped that they could control the disease.

Tang Zhangwei considered the future war and the prevention of disease epidemics, and ordered the epidemics that often occurred among the generals, and Huainan and the epidemics prevalent throughout the country to be summarized, and he set up the Datang Medical Center, referred to as the hospital, in Yangzhou.

At the same time, Tang Zhangwei ordered all sergeants to boil the water before drinking.

In Tang Zhangwei's troops, one person for every five people was assigned to be the commander of the department, responsible for cooking and the storage of other materials.

Bai Cunxiao was puzzled and asked Tang Zhangwei: "Isn't this a waste of soldiers?" ”

Tang Zhangwei smiled silently and said, "Senior, just do it." ”

With the help of Wei Zhuang, Tang Zhangwei began to re-measure and divide the land, and redeemed the land of the big landlords.

In order to accommodate the newly relocated displaced people, Tang Zhangwei designed a number of weapons factories. In these weapons factories, they had craftsmen and technicians draw drawings, and each person made only one.

In this way, the homeless people in the weapons factory will soon be able to get started.

In the weapons factory, the food assembly line, armor and other materials established by Wei Zhuang are all produced by flow.

The only thing that made the displaced people unaccustomed was that Tang Zhangwei hired many tailors, who worked day and night, sewing many coarse cloth clothes of different styles and sizes. As soon as the displaced people arrived, the Huainan officials forcibly divided them into camps, each with a maximum of 500 people, and each with a number.

Huainan officials and soldiers forcibly took off the clothes of the displaced people, and then burned them, and the fire did not go out for several days!